sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5 = E: Broken Packages
1. Open terminal run following command
echo ‘deb http://
RETURN:
benny@b3nY:~$ echo ‘deb http://
bash: /etc/apt/
echo ‘deb-src http://
RETURN:
benny@b3nY:~$ echo ‘deb-src http://
bash: /etc/apt/
2. Add the Launchpad PPA GPG key:
sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.
RETURN:
benny@b3nY:~$ sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.
Executing: gpg --ignore-
usage: gpg [options] [filename]
3. Install firefox-3.5
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5
RETURN:
benny@b3nY:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5
Get:1 http://
Ign http://
Ign http://
Ign http://
Hit http://
Ign http://
Get:2 http://
Get:3 http://
Ign http://
Ign http://
Hit http://
Ign http://
Hit http://
Hit http://
Hit http://
Hit http://
Get:4 http://
Get:5 http://
Fetched 84.9kB in 11s (7243B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
firefox-3.5: Depends: xulrunner-1.9.1 (>= 1.9.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
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